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From: Swift, Daniel P.
Date: Jan 14, 2020 10:52AM

I'm a little late getting into landmarks. I have a follow-up question to this thread. Is it redundant and unnecessary to include both the landmark and the HTML5 element? For example, is there any harm (from a SR perspective or otherwise) of using <header role="banner"> or <main role="main"> for instance? In my reading, it seems like redundancy is okay, but I know that from past experience, having the SR repeat the same things multiple times is obviously a bad thing.

Thanks!

Dan Swift
Senior Web Specialist
University Communications and Marketing
West Chester University
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